True about Meniere's disease:
High-Yield Explanation
Meniere's Disease is Characterised by Episodic veigo (accompanied by nausea vomitting and vagal disturbances like abdominal cramps, diarrhea and bradycardia) Fluctuating deafness of sensorineural type Fluctuating tinnitus. Aural fullness. Emotional disturbances, headache and anxiety. Pulsatile tinnitus is seen in glomus jugulare, AV shunts, aneurysms, stenotic aerial lesions. It may also occur in secretory otitis media. In the early stages of disease most patients are well in between the attack. As the disease progresses patients may have persistent hearing loss, tinnitus and postural imbalance between the attacks of veigo Some patients in the later stages develop drop attacks k/a Tumarkin or otolithic crisis due to otolith dysfunction During this attack patient simply drops without a warning. There is no associated veigo or loss of consciousness